Obscurity Quotes
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: Glory QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I want people to re-evaluate me. My dream would be to make films like Clint Eastwood did... You have to be a self-starter out here at a certain point. It`s important to take the reigns or, otherwise, you can be regaled to obscurity so quickly.
Bill Paxton
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It all goes back to [Joel Schumacher]. I wouldn`t have done Phone Booth (2002) without him. I wouldn`t be doing Hart`s War (2002). I probably wouldn`t have done American Outlaws (2001) if he hadn`t picked me out of obscurity. I`ve worked, but not at the l...
Colin Farrell
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it`s just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello
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You have to demand things and believe you`re worth more. And once you do demand them, you`re usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today`s players, on the other hand, have a sense of enti...
Andres Araya
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
George Allen
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The mind`s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Ahmed Ghneim
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Andrew Anagnost
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Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.
Alastair Bedwell
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it`s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Eric Clapton
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Andrew Anagnost
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte
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I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
Joe Rogan
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I guess I didn`t feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
Steven Soderbergh
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I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning`s line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Alyssa Johnson
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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Hugh Miller
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Adam Quinton
Keywords: fools :: forgets :: himself :: immortality :: into :: man :: obscurity :: one :: proclaim :: ten :: themselves :: thousand :: while :: wiseSubject: Immortality QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Adam Wainwright
Subject: Fame QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
